The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-03-23
NEWS NOTES.
Items OF Interest Gathered from yario,
QuaFteFs.

visit Papa Mackay in May or June.
The French Chamber of Deputies. by a
vote of 31S to 24S, has passed the bill sur.
taxing cereals.
Moonlighters have wrecked the houses
OF ten tenants on Gen. Stewards estate in
West Glare, Ireland.
DR.. T.. G. Ford, of Louisiana, having
been pardoned by the Governor, has been
released from the parish prison.
Mrs. l.. G. Duer and her child were
killed by Il locomotive while walking on
the track at Gainesville, Fla.
Mr.. Parnell reports his health much i'm
proved and his appearance is said to con.
firm his report.
Lieutenant, now General, Greedy, of the
Signal Service, is lccturing in Washington
on Arctic subjects.
Mr.. Blaine is to go to Europe in May, if
he does not change his mind before that
time.
Miss Cleveland dined with Mrs. Beecher
at the latter's home in Brooklyn ON Sunday
afternoon.
Cardinal Manning has heartily endorsed
the policy advocated by Cardinal Gibbons
towards the Knights of Labor.
Tn official arrangements for the Worlds
Exhibition in Paris in 1889, are now com.
pletc.
The total of persons killed in the rail
road wreck is now put ut "a, and the
wounded at about $50.
VIM. II. Travers continues to grow
weaker and now sees nobody but his init
mate friends.
General Sheridan is to build a summer
nome near New Bedford, on the Massachu-
sets coast.
Spnntnr and NIrc E'l,,,,J. I'LL 49,. 49,.
washington for Vermont until the middle
of May.
Senators Sherman and Ingalls,, with the
other members of their Washington party,
have arrived at Havana. -
The New York coopers have renowned
all allegiance to the Knights of Labor, aud
nave gone back to work at reduced wages.
The melting of snow and ice is causing
oyerilows of the Missouri river and its
tributaries.
EX,Alderman O'Neill is said to pass his
leisure time in Sing-Sing in the earnest
study of st. Augustine's confessions.
h health of cX-Presidcnt James D..
Fish continues to grow worse, and it is
thought that he will be pardoncd to avoid
his death in prison.
The British ariStocracy is being dill.
gently worked" in the effort to insure Il
large attendance at Mrs. james Brown Pot.
tcrs debut, which occur on lhc Goth inst.
Lizzie MCGOWAN, aged Is years, of Chi
copcc, Miss, while tempo rarily insane,
took sufficient Paris green to kill % persons
and died in Is minutes.
An engine and tendcr went through the
railroad trcstlc near Marietta, Ohio, killing
inc engineer and the fireman INC seriously
scaidlng the conductor and a brakeman.
The report that there was a GOODNESS be.
tween the President and Secretary Endi.
colt is denied by the press and denounced
by Mr.. Cleveland.
Fannie Rasch, a New Orleans widow
VINO followed the occupation of rag. picker,
was found dead in bed with $l,460 con.
cealed about her shabbily-furnishcd room.
The white and colorcd women in Kansas
are being organized to vote at the coming
spring election which promises to be an OK.
citing one.
beyond Il few sCrimmagcs in London
derry and elsewhere, st. Patrick's day was
observed in an orderly manner throughout
Ireland.
The New York Engineering NenS SAYS
me disaster on Forest Hill Bridge, near
boston, was due to its defective construc-
ton
The Treasury Department has received
an opinion from the first Controller. to the
eject hat Congress failed to appropriate
money for the agricultural stations.
The Illinois Legislature has voted down
Il resolution TO submit Il prohibitOry amend
ilcnt to the people at the next general cleo.
I'oh' The vote was 50 yeas, % nays.
An Ottawa, Ont, dispatch says that an
olhcr last sailing schooner has been added
TO the fisheries protection cruiser fleet for
use during the coming summer.
The French Chamber of Deputies. by a
VOC OF 32S against 23S, approved the bill
imposing n duty of five francs per 100
kllos on wheat imports.
The case against the parties charged with
the shooting of Culbrcath, in Edgefield,
has been postponed, on the ground of alb
scncc OF defendants witnesses.
The Governor of Tennessee has signed
the bill submitting to the people a prohibi.
tlon amendment TO the Constitution. The
election will be held next September.
The silk mills in Union Mills, N. Y,
nave been obliged to shut down, owing to
INC strike in the mills ut Paterson. Over
|Oo men and women are out of employ
mcnt.
Al Il meeting Of Congregational minis.
tcrs IN chicago a statement highly culogis-
TIC OF the Rev. III. w. Bcecher was adopted
ana ordered placed on the records.
The Duchess of Otranto committed sui
eide ut Paris Tuesday by blowing her brains
out with a revolver. She was overweight
with grief at the recent death of her hus- |
band.
Charles Reilly, the famous short stop of
the Princeton Browns for several seasons
past, has just been secured by the Savan-
nah Southern League Club.
When last heard from, Secretary Bayard
mad met the lady only twice to whom he
is Seld TO be engaged, both of those times
having been in public places.
The British war office authorities have
made arrangements for transportation from
Canada to London during the coming sea.
son OF 5000 horses for artillery trains.
The Hon. Willis p. Bocock, twice Attor.
ney General of Virginia and a member of
The Constitutional Convention of 1850.
died Monday in ~Appomattox county, aged
SD Npnro